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Detroit Area Study, 1966: Stratified Association and Values in the Urban Community (ICPSR 7405)

Principal Investigator(s):
Laumann, Edward O.

Summary:

This study of 1,013 adult white males aged 21-64 in
the Detroit metropolitan area provides information on their
opinions of certain public and personal issues, as well as
the pattern of their friendship networks. Respondents were
asked about their friends, jobs, leisure time activities, and
interests, as well as their attitudes toward certain political
issues. Data are provided on respondents' social and work
associations, and their interactions among a common group of
friends. Other items elicited respondents' views on
immigration, labor unions, the role of government, government
spending on public schools, public parks, and county hospitals,
income-earning work, racial imbalance in schools, the role of
the husband in household chores responsibility, Communists,
Ku Klux Klansmen, the ideal number of children for the
average American family, and success. Additional items provide
information on respondents' membership in organizations and
clubs, their use of free time, and their home furnishings.
Demographic variables include age, sex, marital status, country
of birth, education, occupation, religion, political party
affiliation, home ownership, family income, original nationality
of parents, number of children, social class identification, and
length of residence in the Detroit area.
More information about the Detroit Area Studies Project is available on this Web site.

This study of 1,013 adult white males aged 21-64 in
the Detroit metropolitan area provides information on their
opinions of certain public and personal issues, as well as
the pattern of their friendship networks. Respondents were
asked about their friends, jobs, leisure time activities, and
interests, as well as their attitudes toward certain political
issues. Data are provided on respondents' social and work
associations, and their interactions among a common group of
friends. Other items elicited respondents' views on
immigration, labor unions, the role of government, government
spending on public schools, public parks, and county hospitals,
income-earning work, racial imbalance in schools, the role of
the husband in household chores responsibility, Communists,
Ku Klux Klansmen, the ideal number of children for the
average American family, and success. Additional items provide
information on respondents' membership in organizations and
clubs, their use of free time, and their home furnishings.
Demographic variables include age, sex, marital status, country
of birth, education, occupation, religion, political party
affiliation, home ownership, family income, original nationality
of parents, number of children, social class identification, and
length of residence in the Detroit area.

More information about the Detroit Area Studies Project is available on this Web site.

Methodology

Sample:
A total of 1,013 adult white males aged 21-64 in the
Detroit metropolitan area in 1966.

Data Source:

personal interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-05-10

Version History:

2011-12-14 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.